Sanjeev Panigrahi

AI & Data Practice Leader with 21+ years of experience transforming the operations of multiple financial services customers, leveraging AI and data. Managing 500+ people and overall revenue of 150Mn$+

• Growth and business development: Cultivate robust partnerships with market leaders on various financial services accounts, helping them develop solutions, assets, RFP responses, offering campaign strategies, and other resources to win in markets.
• Delivery Management: Manage the delivery of a range of transformation engagements, including cloud data platform modernization, AI platform implementation, leveraging AI for business process transformation, Data and AIOPS, large-scale MI/BI platform migration, and admin system implementations.
• Customer Portfolio Management: Oversee critical financial services accounts, driving major initiatives, and collaborating closely with C-suite stakeholders.
• Innovation and thought leadership: Product owner of EY's Insurance Insights platform, insurance-specific AI and data solutions. Engage with partners, like Guidewire, Snowflake, and Databricks, to develop tailored solutions and help EY win in the market.
• Presales: 7+ years of experience in RSP of large transformation deals, defining the delivery approach, solutions approach, value differentiators, and supporting the orals.
• Cloud Data Modernization: 6+ years of cloud data platform modernization experience and migration experience with financial services clients.
• Domain experience: Multiple domains of banking, insurance, wealth management, asset management, and manufacturing.

Delivery Practice Lead for the Insurance Sector Data and Analytics CoE, working with insurance clients across the globe. Have overall practice responsibility for 40+ engagements, delivery management, account and revenue growth, solutions and innovations, GTM & presales, training, global stakeholder, and people management.

• Lead the IFRS 17 data COE team for EY Global. The 17 COE coordinated with various stakeholders to work on different IFRS 17 requirements across various insurance clients.
• Lead Guidewire data practice and led multiple data platform modernisation programs to meet the AI and the data needs of various insurance customers.

• Led large Agile-based data and analytics transformation programs in financial services for US and UK markets.
• Established offshore teams to implement significant data and analytics engagements.
• Identified and developed business cases, delivering proofs of concept utilizing next-gen technologies in Big Data and Advanced Analytics.
• Managed extensive Guidewire-based data implementations to enhance operational efficiency.
• Executed master data management, data quality, and data governance implementations.
• Conducted BI blueprinting and data strategy initiatives for insurance and life sciences clients, upgrading legacy data landscapes.
• Directed customer RFP processes, providing comprehensive solutions, strategies, and pricing structures.
• Drove customer presentations and demonstrations to showcase POCs effectively.

• Setup 24
• 7 Managed Service BI Support for Manufacturing based customer.
• This would include managing daily operations, stakeholder management, setting offshore teams for different streams, training and skill building of the team, commercials management.
• Experience in data strategy for upgrading data landscape involving tool rationalization and data platform consolidation.
• Work with Account Leadership to initiate a program called as CCBT (Customer Centric Business transformation).
• CCBT involved creating solutions for bringing about tangible or intangible benefits to customer.
• This was beyond the regular work of projects to add value to the customer and provide Dollar Savings.
• Leading large data transformation involving designing & building ETL Architecture & Data Warehouse model design solutions to the customer for various Domain of Sales Order, Inventory Management, O2C, AR/AP/GL etc manufacturing process.
• Helping build the 'one stop' reporting solution for reporting enterprise KPIs.
• Design and Build various Dashboards & Scorecards for the customer in different visualization tools Cognos, OBIEE, Qlikview in the above functional domain.
• Domain:- Manufacturing